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Re: Val Henson's critique of hash-based content storage systems

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TLTom Lord <lord@emf.net>
Date
Apr 29, 2005, 19:52 UTC
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<200504291952.MAA27541@emf.net>
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I wouldn't expect outright successful attacks like forged replacements for arbitrary files.

I would expect someone to have on hand a small number of blobs that are different but have different hashes and, eventually, to drop said files into a blob-based infrastructure to wreak havoc.

So: a way to locally mark a given checksum as "controversial" seems 
prudent, to me (hence, support for such in my blob-db code/spec).
-t
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